CTAN has a new package: filemod
Date: March 23, 2011 7:05:31 PM CET
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Martin Scharrer submitted the
filemod
package.
Summary description: Package to display and compare file modifcation dates
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
This package provides macros to read and compare the modification dates of files. These files can be .tex files, images or other files as long as they can be found by the LaTeX compiler. It uses the \pdffilemoddate primitive of pdfLaTeX to receive the file modification date as PDF date string, parses it and returns the value to the user. This package will also work for DVI output with recent versions of the LaTeX compiler which uses pdfLTEX in DVI mode. The functionality is provided by purely expandable macros or by faster but non-expandable ones. Examples: % Prints file modification date and time of main file \filemodprint{\jobname} % Include newest of a set of files: \input{\filemodNewest{{file1}{file2}{file3}}}
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/filemod . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/filemod (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf
This package provides macros to read and compare the modification dates of files. These files can be .tex files, images or other files as long as they can be found by the LaTeX compiler. It uses the \pdffilemoddate primitive of pdfLaTeX to receive the file modification date as PDF date string, parses it and returns the value to the user. This package will also work for DVI output with recent versions of the LaTeX compiler which uses pdfLTEX in DVI mode. The functionality is provided by purely expandable macros or by faster but non-expandable ones. Examples: % Prints file modification date and time of main file \filemodprint{\jobname} % Include newest of a set of files: \input{\filemodNewest{{file1}{file2}{file3}}}
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/filemod . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/filemod (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf
filemod – Provide file modification times, and compare them
The package provides macros to read and compare the modification dates of files. The files may be .tex files, images or other files (as long as they can be found by LaTeX). It uses the \pdffilemoddate primitive of pdfLaTeX to find the file modification date as PDF date string, parses the string and returns the value to the user. The package will also work for DVI output with recent versions of the LaTeX compiler which uses pdfLaTeX in DVI mode. The functionality is provided by purely expandable macros or by faster but non-expandable ones.
| Package | filemod |
| Version | 1.2 |
| Copyright | 2011 Martin Scharrer |
| Maintainer | Martin Scharrer |